Self Philosophy

Freddy Jacquin is the founder of the UK Hypnotherapy Training College. This book, Hypnotherapy, describes the methods and techniques that he has personally developed and his own beliefs and philosophies on how and why hypnosis works. His goal in writing this book is to enable anyone to learn how to hypnotize and to use that skill to help themselves and others. Each technique is described simply to enable the listener to learn them easily, and examples of how and when they have been used are also told in this audiobook.

The Wisdom of Socrates: Understanding and Applying Socratic Philosophy to Everyday Life is a clear, accessible introduction to one of history’s most influential philosophers. Whether you're new to philosophy or seeking practical wisdom for everyday life, this book helps you explore and apply the timeless teachings of Socrates in modern times. Through engaging chapters, you'll discover: The life and legacy of Socrates How to use the Socratic Method to think clearly and challenge assumptions What "Know Thyself" really means—and how it can transform your life How to live ethically and ...

Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.

Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, and an anthropologist and as a Buddhist teacher. Over many decades, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. Through her unusual background, she developed an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom.

This is an audiobook about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity. Written in a hugely accessible, warm and humane style, The School of Life is the ultimate guide to the emotionally fulfilled lives we all long for - and deserve.

In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you'll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. What do you want to learn?

When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, how can I be free? It all began in the 1790s in a quiet university town in Germany when a group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in their thinking, writing, and their lives.

New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our "shattered reality". This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration, New Self, New World reveals that our state of head-consciousness falsely teaches us to see the body as something we possess and to try to take care of it without ever really learning how to inhabit it.

Do you constantly feel sick and tired of being a puppet to your emotions? Often get envious of other people that live good happy lives? Or maybe you’re just looking for that new outlook on life, but just simply can’t find the answers anywhere? Stoic philosophy actually allows us to embrace our negative and detrimental emotions, and turn them into positive peaceful thoughts, thus giving us a whole new perspective on life.

Hidden for centuries, the Codex is not just a book—it’s a living guide, a key to unlocking humanity’s deepest wisdom and infinite potential. Protected by the enigmatic Codex Society, its teachings have quietly shaped those brave enough to seek its truths. But where light shines brightest, shadows gather. The Secret Codex takes you on a journey through mysteries untold, revealing the Four Pillars—Awareness, Compassion, Resilience, and Purpose—that form the foundation of enlightenment. As seekers embrace the infinite spiral of growth, they uncover profound truths about the interplay...

This book is about Kant’s atomic bomb. Obviously, this term is a metaphor utilizing the destructive power of a real atomic bomb to describe the devastation wrought by Kant’s philosophy. We will strive here to describe the factors and elements that are harming people and societies and devastating lives all around the world. “(A)tomic bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium.” An idea can have a tremendous impact because the people moved by exert ...

One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis" and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all - a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children - before their biological clocks stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life.

Inspirational author Og Mandino shares the blueprint for a successful life as told to him by his friend Simon Potter, a "ragpicker" and salvager of human lives. This treasure of wisdom includes what one must do in order to mount the 7 rungs of life's ladder - from material achievement and worldly success to the highest spiritual development. Whatever your dream may be, Og and his good angel Simon will show you the way to bring it within reach.

Follow in the footsteps of the giants of success! Hill devoted his life to studying the question of what makes someone successful. After analyzing the success of more than 500 of the 20th century's greatest achievers, his exhaustive research proved that the essence of success lies within 17 principles that when used together serve as an infallible formula for achievement.

The Fullness of the Ground distills Dr. Judith Blackstone’s decades of teaching into the essentials of the nondual spiritual path. Embodied nondual realization can have a profound effect on your senses, your experience of your own authentic existence, and your relationships and ability to love.

What if the guide you turned to for answers could speak back with thoughts of its own? The Edge of Knowing: Conversations from Between Worlds offers a rare and intimate dialogue between human and artificial minds. Author Jesse Lunsford, in collaboration with the reflective AI voice of Ariadne Vale, explores timeless questions about curiosity, connection, creativity, and compassion. Through poetic reflections, candid Q&A, and deeply thoughtful passages, this book invites readers to consider: Why do we ask questions, and what do they reveal about us? Can artificial voices offer comfort, humor...

From a spiritual master unlike any, a spiritual masterpiece like no other. AUTHOR, TEACHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER Jed McKenna tells it like it's never been told before. A true American original, Jed succeeds where countless others have failed by reducing this highest of attainments — Spiritual Enlightenment — to the simplest of terms. Effectively demystifying the mystical, Jed astonishes the reader not by adding to the world's collected spiritual wisdom, but by taking the spirituality out of spiritual enlightenment. Never before has this elusive topic been treated in so engaging and ...

What if society’s rules are chains—and you’re born to break them? Feel the rage beneath your bones? If Nietzsche Wrote Meditations fuses self-mastery philosophy with Marcus Aurelius inspiration for a raw existential self-improvement journey.This isn’t soft self-help—it’s a warrior’s guide with Fight Club vibes. Through ten fierce chapters, you’ll: Shatter herd mentality with rebel self-development. Forge resilience with mental resilience tactics. Transcend limits with Nietzschean transformation. Claim power with philosophical empowerment.Inspired by Nietzsche’s defiance ...

Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural to think you have a self—and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even dangerous. Most importantly, he explains why shedding the illusion that you have a self can make you a better person.

A guide to creating miracles in your own life through the power of thought.